About

Josh Wagner is a storyteller and trans-medial artist based in the South of Ireland. He has produced award-winning work in film, theatre, comics, and traditional prose. Publication credits include Cafe Irreal, Fish Publishing, Not One of Us, Cleaver Magazine, Medulla Review, Fractured Lit, the Lovecraft eZine, Routledge Press and Image Comics. He received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, his MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and his PhD in Creative Practice from University College Cork.

These days, Josh works closely with a forest-based arts practice, exploring posthumanism, spectralities, and the nebulas of grief. He is fascinated by rhizomes, paradoxes, and things left unsaid.

Music

These days, I’m probably more excited to work on music and sound design than anything, so if you’re looking for someone to score your film, check out my portfolio here.

Meanwhile, here’s a film I edited TO its score.

I also have a Tolkien-related music project in the works. You can learn all about it on my Substack page.

Video and Audio

Bleach Bone: Now on the festival circuit

Cold Isle: Short Film

Reading: EVENING CLAY, by Josh Wagner from Wildsound Festival.
The Midlife Dragon, animated and performed by Hugh Bickley, story by Josh Wagner

Wagner discusses the writing life, his influences, and his experiences following the tragic loss of his mother.
VOICE shot by Jon Aaseng SHAPES THE SUNLIGHT TAKES, Chapter Zero, read by the author SHAPES THE SUNLIGHT TAKES, “Derwin & Mirielle,” read by the author. Adam Funn by Brad Wilson and Josh Wagner Mystery Mark by Theo Ellsworth and Josh Wagner, shot by Kier Atherton Mother Ash read by the author